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KYPRIANOS M877

Sigla: question mark icon Modern names for the manuscript, including inventory and publication numbers.

SM I 51
Cologne, Papyrussammlung O. 409

Category: question mark icon Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical.

Magical (applied)

Contents:

1. Ro ll. 1-15: Love spell for Theodoros against Matrona.

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Language(s):

Greek

Script(s):

Greek

Dialect:
Language/dialect notes:
Date: question mark icon Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. 101 – 300
Date notes:

Daniel & Maltomini (1990: p. 211); 200-399 (Martin Hernandez & Torallas Tovar 2024: p. 797 no. 12; see TM)

Archive/collection: question mark icon Larger collection to which manuscript belongs. KYP A83
Archive name: Oxyhrynchus Love Spell Dossier
State of edition:

Published.

Image: https://papyri.uni-koeln.de/stueck/tm92864

Form:

Jar

Material:

Jar (pottery)

Dimensions (cm): Height: 10.5 Width: 11 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

Collection website (4/12/2020);

Folding pattern:
State of preservation:

Complete, considerable damage.

Pages/Columns: question mark icon Total surviving columns in the manuscript for rolls, sheets and rotuli; total number of pages for codices.

1

Pages/Columns (notes):

1 column, 15 lines.

Hand:

Findspot:

Oxyrhynchus, Egypt

(TM places ID: 1524)
Place of purchase: (TM places ID: )
Writingspot:

Oxyrhynchus, Egypt (?)

(TM places ID: 1524)
Present Location:

Cologne, Papyrussammlung

Collection History:
Trismegistos collection: question mark icon Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. 172
Collection website: http://www.uni-koeln.de/phil-fak/ifa/NRWakademie/papyrologie/Magie/magie_03.html

Notes/Discussion:

Bibiliography
Editions:

Bevilacqua, Gabriella. Scrittura e magia. Opuscula epigraphica 12. Roma: Quasar, 2010, p. 79-80.

Daniel, Robert W., and Franco Maltomini. Supplementum Magicum. Vol. 1. Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag, 1990, p. 211-213, no. 51.

Wortmann, Dierk. “Neue Magische Texte.” Bonner Jahrbücher 168 (1968): p. 80-84, no. 4.


Translations:

Gager, John G. Curse Tablets and Binding Spells from the Ancient World. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992, p. 100-101, no. 29.


General:

Martín Hernández, Raquel, and Sofía Torallas Tovar. SMSR 80 (2024), p. 797, no. 12. Forthcoming, see TM 92864.


Trismegistos ID:

92864

PAThs:
PGM: question mark icon Papyri Gracae Magicae SM: question mark icon Supplementum Magicum

51

GEMF: question mark icon Greek and Egyptian Magical Formularies (forthcoming) ACM: question mark icon Ancient Christian Magic
Bélanger Sarrazin: question mark icon Bélanger-Sarrazin. “Catalogue des textes magiques coptes” AKZ: question mark icon Ausgewählte koptische Zaubertexte CBd: question mark icon Campbell-Bonner Magical Gems Database Mert.-Pack: question mark icon Mertens-Pack online database
Van H: question mark icon van Haelst, Catalogue des papyrus littéraires Bruyn-Dijkstra: question mark icon de Bruyn and Dijkstra, “Greek Amulets and Formularies (Checklist)" TheDefix: question mark icon Thesaurus Defixionum

111

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Edit History:

KD (25/10/2019); MPS (4/12/2020)


How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo, Edward O.D. Love & Markéta Preininger (chief editors). "KYP M877," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m877. Accessed on 16/05/2024

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